black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.

Brennan Manning

Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
BRENNAN MANNING

God Important Love Ourselves
Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.
BRENNAN MANNING

Courage Failure Faith Growth Live Ourselves Risk Willing
I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
BRENNAN MANNING

Content Deserve God Myself Sin Wonderful
Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
BRENNAN MANNING

Attention Be Yourself People Tragedy
Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.
BRENNAN MANNING

Choice Dreams Failure God Sin
Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
BRENNAN MANNING

Authentic Believe Childhood Discipline Spirit Surender Trust
The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
BRENNAN MANNING

Darkness Existence Imperfection Light Man True Woman
We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.
BRENNAN MANNING

Desert Experience God Kind Love Personal
For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.
BRENNAN MANNING

Demand God Present Radical Religion Rise
Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father’s active goodness and unrestricted love.
BRENNAN MANNING

Active Clarity Crave Destroy Elimination Father Restriction Risk
Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.
BRENNAN MANNING

Encouragement Evil Failure Forever Grace Sorrow Suffering
How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
BRENNAN MANNING

Glory Heart Human Love Trust
The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.
BRENNAN MANNING

Creation Desire God Heart Live Original Ourselves Purpose
When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.
BRENNAN MANNING

Children Commitment Gradual Mindset Nourish Nurture Spirit
There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.
BRENNAN MANNING

Beautiful Discipline Face Honesty Pretend Transparent
God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
BRENNAN MANNING

Be Yourself God Love Original

The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Brennan Manning Quotes